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More than 10% of all sentinel events reported to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations relate to medication error.
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New research shows that a three-session, educational intervention with caregivers of cancer patients in hospice can significantly improve the caregivers' quality of life and reduce burden related to the patients' symptoms and duties.
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A Pennsylvania hospice reduced its denial rate by more than 80 percent after instituting a formal educational program that taught staff how to properly document patients' need for hospice care.
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As performance improvement programs and the ability to track data and trends from OBQI reports have become more sophisticated, home health agencies report improvements in all categories, except hospital readmission rates.
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A new job can be overwhelming no matter what industry you may choose, but when the new job is in home care, saying that the job is overwhelming may be an understatement.
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This prospective study demonstrates that clinical features such as focal deficits, a clear time of onset, and absence of non-neurological signs distinguish a stroke diagnosis from other diagnoses at the bedside.
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No evidence was found to indicate that people with self-reported sensitivity to mobile phone signals are able to detect such signals or that they react to them with increased symptom severity.
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Coexpression of EGFRvIII and PTEN by glioblastoma cells is associated with responsiveness to EGFR kinase inhibitors.
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Can Calcium and Vitamin D Prevent Hip Fractures?; Treatment of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia; Treatment of Osteoarthritis of the Knee; Refractory Asthma and TNFConnection?; FDA Actions
